The posse was hard on the trail of the kidnappers. Ramon, by virtue of the speed of his faithful steed, was several minutes ahead of the rest of the group, his keen eyes searching for signs of the villain's trail. When the trail turned, he left strips of fabric, torn from his duster, to help guide the others.
He had been tracking for about fifteen minutes when a fourth man joined the desperados. He continued his pursuit, only to be ambushed by a pair of the kidnappers. Luckily, his faithful steed sensed the danger and warned him. Twisting from the back of Scirocco, he landed with a dancers grace despite the footing and came up shooting.
The two men fired as well and he was grazed in the belly. His Henry rifle barked three times, shattering one man's leg and wounding the other. The man with the leg injury turned to ride while his friends pistols barked out a tarantella. Deftly avoiding the bullets, Ramon returned fire and his counter-rhythym proved effective, leaving one of them dead and the other unconscious.
Still several minutes behind, the posse picked up their pace, fearing the worst and hoping to catch up with Ramon. Ramon continued, but the trail became fainter and was harder to follow. He dismounted and was looking for signs when the posse caught up with him. It appeared the two remaining kidnappers had descended into the ravine north of town. They proceeded cautiously, as Ken warned them of caves which dotted the ravine.
They hadn't gone far when they saw where one of the horses had gone into the cave. Judging by the weight, it was the one with the girl. Skeeter, Colin and John stayed to try and rescue the girl while Ken and Ramon rode on after the second man to ensure that it wasn't a trick and that he didn't survive to tell his boss what had happened.
Skeeter worked his way into the cave where he spotted the desperado trying to keep his horse quiet. The man had his gun out and pointed at the girl. With nary a thought for his own safety, Skeeter ran at the man, leaping high into the air to knock the outlaw's gun free. Skeeter drew two pistols of his own and the man, obviously smarter than he looked, surrendered.
Meanwhile, Ken and Ramon hadn't gone far when they caught sight of the last desperado skulking behind some rocks on the trail ahead. Ken, in a feat of fancy shooting, bounced a bullet off a nearby rock and managed to hit the gunmen. He panicked and tried to flee, but his horse lost its footing on the muddy trail and went down, the sound of its leg breaking cutting through the din of the storm. As the man tried to cower behind his injured horse, Ramon offered him a chance to surrender. When he didn't take it, Ramon opened fire and a third kidnapper found himself on the way to hell.
The posse returned to Winchester's for a tearful reunion of father and daughter. Winchester took them to the basement where he was dissecting the corpse of both the creature and MacPherson. When asked, he said the body was a good look-alike but not MacPherson. The other creature was a ghoul and would have taken great power to summon.
While some of the group tried to warm up from the storm, John went down to the jail to visit with the gunmen who had surrendered at the house. He laid quite a whalloping on the prisoner, but wasn't sure the man was telling the truth when he claimed to have been hired by someone named Stone. Luckily the rest of the posse arrived and Colin was able to recognize the truth of the man's words.
He claimed they had been hired by Stone to kidnap the girl, drop her in the mountains to die, then bring some papers back to Stone in a border town. They hadn't found the papers but figured they'd kill the girl anyhow, then see what Stone wanted next.
Steve: Oh, it was an analogy. (Gets a chip) I like analogies.
Tom: You can't even hear Tim snap his fingers because of the storm
Steve: That wasn't much of a thunderclap.Tom (showing Tim Steve's note): Doesn't that look like a 'd'?
Tim: Maybe if you count the thin line to the 'o' next to it
Steve: That's an 'e'.Tim: When they get lost, I fire a shot.
Dave: Great, now Mike can't hear. Joe was already blind, so now we got blind, deaf and dumb.Tom: Make a trackin' roll
Steve: 25
Tim: Horse number 2 needs to be reshoed. How can you tell? There's the shoe right there.Steve: That's no way to treat a fine animal. He must be punished! Blam! Blam! Blam!
Joe: Did he do anything improper to ya? (waves guns)
Tom: Who ya pointin' the guns at?
Steve (mocking): Duh! The girl!
Tom (defensive): One - he can't see too well. Two - it's Joe.Skeeter: You look kinda cold. Colin, give her your coat.
Mike: We like the number sevens; they swing better.
John: Why don't you go watch for Ramon?
Bubba: First, yer just some poker player who set up in my town. Second, Ramon's got a badge, I got a badge...
John: I got a fifty.
Bubba: I'll be outside.John: Who's your boss?
Outlaw: Someone who's gonna kill you slowly and enjoy it!
Steve: Hell, that ain't tellin' me nuthin', there's a whole list o' folks like that.Mike: I'm gonna use a miracle called Confession
Tom: But I ain't catholic!
Joe (pulls mock knife): No, but I can make you Jewish.Steve: It's right in the Scout Oath, you have to believe in a Supreme Being.
Joe (very serious): I never hard about that.
Winchester likes to dissect dead things.
Somebody named Stone is using the Emerson-MacPherson rivalry to cover his own activities.
Ken “especially that Sioux skin” is about as subtle as a marching band.
Eponymous: Giving one's name to another thing (usually, a person to a town or event, less often a band to an album, even less often a campaign to an adventure).